Washing-machine.



No. 889,930. PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908.

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APPLICATION I'ILVED JUNE 14, 1907.

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No. 889,930. PATEN-TED JUNE 9, 1908.

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WASHING-MA CHINE Application filed June 14, 1907.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Serial No. 379,012.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JoimN ITUEBNE'R, citizen of the United. States, residing at llammend, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in W'ashing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a washing machine of the oscillating type which operates with or is op erated by a rocking chair in which the operator sits and rocks back and forth to effect the desired result.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 1s a side elevation with the tub in section. Fig. 3 is a top plan. view of the machine, with the cover partly broken away. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the presser used in the machine. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a modified form of presser. Fig. 6 is a detail in section.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 1 indicates a chair and 3 the tub of the washing machine. These are mounted upon rockers 2 which set in a bed frame 4. At one end of the frame is a standard 5 which overhangs the tub and has fixed thereto a depending bar 6 on which is fulcrumed a rocking or working lever 7 to the opposite ends of which are pivoted connecting rods 8. The rods 8 are connected to corrugated and perforated bed plates 10, upon which the clothes are placed. These plates are hinged together at the middle, and rest upon a double inclined wooden base or platform 11 which is mounted and supported upon spiral springs 12 rest ing on the bottom of the tub.

A presser is indicated at 9, consisting of a frame extending crosswise between the sides of the tub and above the bed 10. The end pieces of the presser have lugs 9 which fit in vertical grooves formed by spaced strips 9 secured to the opposite sides of the tub. At the top the presser is connected by a cross rod 18 to the lower end of the vertical bar 6 which, as said, is fastened to the overhanging standard 5.

Spiral springs 15 are connected from the frame 4 to the rocker, both front and rear,

and. serve to prevent the tub from rocking too far either forward or backward, and. the

springs help the operation when it is started.

18 is a spring which extends from one end of the base frame 4 to the other, above the rockers, and its object is to hold the rockers to or upon the frame 4, preventing jumping or excessive movement while allowing the necessary movement to effect the object of the device. If it werenot for the spring 18 the co rocking movement would or might cause the rocking structure to shift or slide in the bed frame. This spring simply tends to prevent such shift and to hold the parts in place.

The tub has a cover 19 formed in two parts with a slot 19 therebetween, through which the rods 8 operate.

In the operation of the machine, a person sitting in the chair and rocking will cause the tub to oscillate, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the result of which will be that one rod 8 will move upward and one move downward, acting on the lever 7, and drawing one end of the bed 10 upwardly and pressing the other end of said bed downwardly, and at the same time the lower end of the presser 9 swings. Said presser is inclined. or leaned toward the side of the bed 10 which is being lifted, and clothes located between the presser and that side of the bed are pressed or squeezed, and the dirt dislodged therefrom. When the chair is rocked back, the operation is reversed, or repeated in the other end of the tub. The perforations in the bed 10 allow the Water to be forced up through the same, and through the clothes at each oscillation, and the water will flow or be forced from one end of the tub to the other, passing through clothes as they are being pressed and effectively dislodging the dirt therefrom. For ordinary clothes the presser having the projections 9 may be used, but for line fabrics the presser shown in Fig. 5 will be preferable, having simple slats 9 extending across the same, to press upon the fabrics or articles in the tub.

I claim:

1. The combination of an oscillating tub having a flat bottom, a presser extending across the tub at the middle thereof and having a hinge connection at the top to an eX- terior support and a pivotal connection at the bottom to the sides of the tub, a bed located ends of the lever and arranged to rock within 10 in the tub and extending at an inclination and relative to the tub toward and from the downwardly from each end thereof toward presser. the pivot of the presser, and supporting In testimony whereofI affix my signature, springs under the bed, at each end thereof. in presence of two witnesses.

2. The combination of an oscillating tub, J OHAN HUEBNER. a presser supported in the middle thereof, a Witnesses: lever exteriorly-supported above the tub, a CHARLES E. K. LOABENER" bed connected at its opposite ends to the WM. J. ROBINSON. 

